shaar · remain, be left

What it means

shaar (שָׁאַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “remain, be left”.

Over; be what is left. In the causative form, leave behind.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To remain, what is left.
2. To leave something over.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To remain, to be left over; in the causative form, to leave. From the same root comes שְׁאֵרִית, remnant (H7611).

• “Only Noah was left” Genesis 7:23
• Naomi was left alone Ruth 1:3Ruth 1:5
• “There remains still the youngest” 1 Samuel 16:11
• “Not a single locust remained” Exodus 10:19
• The remnant that remains of the people Isaiah 11:112 Kings 25:22

How we translate it

“Left” 80 times, “leave” 16, “remain” 13, “remained” 11, “remains” 10… In war, “left … no survivor”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• left ×80
• leave ×16
• remain ×13
• remained ×11
• remains ×10
• remaining ×1
• rest ×1
• what has been kept back ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×8
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×9
• Joshua×17
• Judges×3
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×7
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×17
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×18
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×3
• Joel×1
• Amos×2
• Obadiah×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 7:23

  And he wiped out all that existed that was on the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky; and they were wiped out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

• Genesis 14:10

  Now the Valley of Siddim was pit after pit of bitumen; and as they fled, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there, and those who were left fled to the mountains.

• Genesis 32:8

  For he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp that is left will escape.”

• Genesis 42:38

  But he said, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are making, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 47:18

  That year ended, and they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that the silver is spent and the herds of animals belong to my lord; nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our land.

• Exodus 8:9

  Moses said to Pharaoh, “Have the honor over me: for when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and from your houses and remain only in the Nile?”

• Exodus 8:11

  The frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”

• Exodus 8:31

  YHWH did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.

• Exodus 10:5

  They will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat what is left of what escaped, what remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you in the field.

• Exodus 10:12

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:19

  And YHWH turned it into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

• Exodus 10:26

  Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for from it we must take to serve YHWH our Elohim, and we do not know with what we must serve YHWH until we arrive there.”

• Exodus 14:28

  The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that had gone after them into the sea; not even one of them remained.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 25:52

  And if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate with him; according to his years he shall pay back the price of his redemption.

• Leviticus 26:36

  And as for those who are left of you, I will bring faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.

• Leviticus 26:39

  And those who are left of you will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers with them they will waste away.

• Numbers 9:12

  They shall not leave any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

• Numbers 11:26

  But two men had remained in the camp; the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the second Medad; and the spirit rested on them —and they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent— and they prophesied in the camp.

• Numbers 21:35

  So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until no survivor was left to him; and they took possession of his land.

• Deuteronomy 2:34

  We captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones; we left no survivor.

• Deuteronomy 3:3

  So YHWH our Elohim gave into our hand also Og king of Bashan and all his people, and we struck him until no survivor was left to him.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)

• Deuteronomy 4:27

  YHWH will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which YHWH will lead you.

• Deuteronomy 7:20

  Moreover YHWH your Elohim will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide from you perish.

• Deuteronomy 19:20

  And those who remain shall hear and fear, and they shall not again do any such evil thing among you.

• Deuteronomy 28:51

  And it will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; it will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the offspring of your herds or the young of your flock, until it has made you perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:55

  so as not to give to any one of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:62

  And you will be left few in number, whereas you were like the stars of the heavens in multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your Elohim.

• Joshua 8:17

  Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel; and they abandoned the city open and pursued Israel.

• Joshua 8:22

  And these came out from the city to meet them, so that they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them until no survivor or fugitive was left to them.

• Joshua 10:28

  And Makkedah Joshua took on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king; he devoted to destruction them and every person who was in it; he left no survivor. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:30

  And YHWH gave it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person who was in it; he left no survivor in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he had left him no survivor.

• Joshua 10:37

  They took it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and all its cities and every person who was in it; he left no survivor, according to all that he had done to Eglon; and he devoted it to destruction and every person who was in it.

• Joshua 10:39

  He took it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person who was in it; he left no survivor. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to its king, and as he had done to Libnah and to its king.

• Joshua 10:40

  So Joshua struck all the land: the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes, and all their kings; he left no survivor, and he devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had commanded.

• Joshua 11:8

  And YHWH gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and as far as Misrephoth-maim, and as far as the valley of Mizpah to the east; and they struck them until they had left them no survivor.

• Joshua 11:14

  And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock the sons of Israel plundered for themselves; only all the human beings they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them; they did not leave anything that breathed.

• Joshua 11:22

  No Anakim were left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.

And 93 more times.